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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



NOVEMBBB 6, 1908. 



Chrysanthemums ! 



Best in the Chicago Market 



White, Yellow, Pink, per doz., $1.00 to $3.00 



BEAUTIES 



Per doz. 



Extra long stems $8.00 to (4.00 



Stems 84 inches 8.00 



Stems 80 inches 1.S0 



Per dos. 



Stems 16 inches 91.86 



Stems 18 inches 1.00 



Good stock in shorter lengths. 



ROSES 



Killamey, Kaiserin, Carnot and Richmond per lOO 



Select $8.00 



Long 6.00 



Medium $4.00 to 5.00 



Short 3.00 



BRIDES, MAIDS and PBRLES Per 100 



Long $6.00 to $8.00 



Medium 4.00 to 5.00 



Short 3.00 



Shorter lengths in lots of 500 or more, $20.00 per 1000 



FANCY CARNATIONS, red, white and pink, long, stiff stems, large flowers, per 100, $3.00 to $4.00. 

 Complete line of all Greens. Lily of the Valley, per 100, $4.00. Easter Lilies, per 100, $10.00. 



\ Buy Your Flowers Direct of the Grower 



Visitors Are Invited 



to come to Hinsdale and see our new Red Carnation, 



O. p. Bassett 



growing in our greenhouses. It will Ispeak for itself. Trains every 

 hour, beginning at 7:46 a. m. Tickets will be supplied at our office. 



Bassett & Washburn 



GREENHOUSES, 



'^^^: nx. Office and Store, 76 Wabash Ave., CHICAGO 



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MeDtio^Th^Reviewwhenyo^vrlter 



the demand called for last week. All 

 varieties are coming in fine. 



California violets are cleaning up every 

 morning. The cool nights have bright- 

 ened up the color. Valley has quite a 

 fair demand when good. Smilax, aspara- 

 gus and other greens are plentiful. 



Various Notes. 



At time of writing this letter the 

 members of the executive committee v?ere 

 busy transforming the large Armory hall 

 into a flower garden, so as to have every- 

 thing in readiness for the opening Tues- 

 day night, November 3. 



Fred Ostertag has taken a position 

 with J. W. Dunford, as manager of his 

 Gallagher Flower Shop, on Page avenue. 



Miss Theresa Badaraceo and the Mul- 

 lanphy Floral Co. exhibited their delivery 

 wagons at the horse show last week. Both 

 made good impressions. 



Fred Foster, of the Foster Floral Co., 

 exhibited his horse, Red Feather, at the 

 horse show and took second prize. 



J. F. Ammann, of Edwardsville, called 

 last week. He will leave on the night 

 of November 5 for Chicago for the open-' 

 ing of the national flower show No-' ' 

 vember 6. He is one of the judges on 

 plants. 



August Schuerman, of the Schuerman 

 Flctral Co., furnished the decorations at 

 the opening of the new Coliseum. Horse 



show colors prevailed, green and white. 



Henry Ostertag, whose place is near 

 the new Coliseum, reports that trade in 

 cut mums and violets for horse show 

 week was large. A great many flowers 

 of all kinds were used daily for this oc- 

 casion. 



C. A. Kuehn is handling a fine lot of 

 roses this season. Among them is extra 

 good quality of Potter Palmer from Am- 

 mann 's. 



Baer's and Peterson's carnations are 

 coming in fine. 



Henry Kphrs, who is managing the cut 

 flower department for Grimm & Gorley, 

 reports that the firm was busy last week 

 with large designs for funerals. 



L, N. Van Hook, of Ferguson, Mo., 

 will again have a large cut of extra fine 

 quality of violets and carnations this 

 year. 



Hugo Gross and the Ahners, at Kirk- 

 wood, have finished their new additions 

 and are sending in some extra good vio- 

 lets and carnations. 



The Missouri Botanical Garden will 

 open its frermuiA show in the big tent 

 at the garden a^rwek after the Horticul- 

 tural Society show. 



Hans Jensen, foreman for A. Jablon- 

 sky, has left Mr. Jablonsky's employ. 



Miss Clara Holtzmann and Otto 

 Bruening, manager at Berning's, were 



married .October 28, at the home of the 

 bride's parents. The happy couple are 

 being congratulated on all sides. 



The Florists' BowUng Club had quite 

 "a large attendance Monday night, Oc- 

 tober 26, there being twenty present, and 

 fairly good scores were made by some 

 of the oJd timers. The next bowling 

 will be on Monday night, November 9. 



Visitors included Arnold Ringier, Chi- 

 cago; B. Eschner and M. Reukauf, Phil- 

 adelphia. J. J. B. 



John Cavagnaro has bought the vacant 

 lot, 25x200, on Olive street, near Taylor 

 avenue. He owns the building on the 

 west of it, occupied by the Ellison Floral 

 Co. Mr, Cavagnaro will erect a hand- 

 some two-story buildine. cost about $10,- 

 000, for the Ellison Co., in conjunction 

 with its present quarters. 



Halifax, N. S. — W. A. Yates, of the 

 Halifax Floral Depot, has imported di- 

 rectly from Holland a fine selection of 

 hyacinths, tulips, narcissi and other, 



bulbs. 



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Ogdbn, Utah. — The concrete and glass 

 greenhouse for B. Van der Schuitt, on 

 Woodland avenue, between Thirty-third 

 ' and Thirty- fourth streets, is nearing com- 

 pletion and will cost the owner upwards 

 of $1,500. 





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